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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Subject: bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:39:16 +0200
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To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:39:50PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> Now I pushed a 'wip-installer-help' branch that implement this
> mechanism. I'm now able to switch the installer keyboard layout from any
> step.
> 
> WDYT?

I like it.  The switching also does not affect the generated
config.scm.  Thank you for all your work.

Without being able to use a key combination, I ended up editing the
config.scm with an Arabic layout though and cannot exit nano.
Key combinations are needed in addition, I suppose. :)

Regards,
Florian